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the TUC. Others did, however. The first business of the Congress was 'to welcome the mayor and corporation, the high sheriff and the lord lieutenant of the county'!

ernment took office. The world crisis of capitalism was reaching unprecedented dimensions. Labour at once made its intentions clear by appointing as Minister of Labour SHOR STOR CAMBRIAN Marching miners take to the buses of London during a 1927 unemployment demonstration.

The unemployed never got near In 1929 the second Labour Gov### GATE S SHEROS BANGA PORTE one of the three labour movement signatories to the Blanesburgh Report, Margaret Bondfield, In the summer of 1929 the NUWM sent a deputation to see Bondfield and the Minister for Health, Arthur Greenwood. These two worthies refused to see them. Instead they once again called on the services of a squad of police, who evicted the unemployed deputation from the Ministry of Labour using arm-locks and half-nelsons.

Committed to saving capitalism, Arthur Greenwood told the workhouse authorities to treat the marchers as casuals. As the marchers pushed towards London, Labour had a "change of heart' and raised the scale of adult benefit from seven shillings to nine shillings. When the marchers reached London they were greeted by nearly 50,000 people

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